Jeff Carmichael has recently received the B97 (WBWB radio), Hoosier Country 105.1 and IU Credit Union ‘Feature Teacher’ award. This award is presented to a teacher who has been nominated by one or more students or parents. Jeff is a special education teacher at Edgewood High School who not only helps his students learn math, reading and other subjects, but also prepares them with many important basic life skills.

The Wizard of Claus is coming! Featuring Dorothy, Cowardly Lion, Tin Man, Scarecrow and Glinda the Witch, this EHS traditional show is back again. Follow the yellow brick road into the Cookie Walk for many delicious cookies and treats. Santa Claus will be ready to greet children during intermission as well as many other favorite characters . This is a family friendly show for all ages!

We are switching our current Harmony Parent/Student portal to the New Harmony 3 Family Access and all parents should have received an email with the link to log in, as well as instructions for the setup. Everyone needs to register with the new credentials, as we will eventually be turning off the current version of the program.

One of the advantages of the new Harmony 3 Family Access is that it allows parents and students to have separate accounts with their own user names and passwords to access information as well as set notifications. Because the accounts are separate, students will not be able to make changes to any of the settings made by parents.

In the new program you will be able add all your students into one login and to see the following:

Edgewood Theater's fall musical, "The Wedding Singer" will run November 19, 20 and 21 at 7PM in the high school auditorium. General Admission is $8, students and seniors $5, and children under 2 are free. Based on the hit Adam Sandler movie, The Wedding Singer's sparkling score does for the '80s what Hairspray did for the '60s. The musical is set in 1985, where a rock-star wannabe Robbie Hart is New Jersey's favorite wedding singer. He's the life of the party, until his own fiancee leaves him at the altar. Shot through the heart, Robbie makes every wedding as disastrous as his own. Enter Julia, a winsome waitress who wins his affection. As luck would have it, Julia is about to be married to a Wall Street shark, and unless Robbie can pull off the performance of a decade, the girl of his dreams will be gone forever. Come out to the EHS auditorium and catch the show for an evening of fun-filled entertainment. (submitted by Kathy Weller, Masqued Crafters Volunteer)

Homecoming week tends to boost the Mustang school morale each year, pinning each class in a friendly competition to show the most school spirit. Classes are awarded points based on themed dress-up days, a Class Clash rivalry of events, and new this year, a "We CAN change the World" food drive, sponsored by the National Honor Society. NHS members set their goal high at 1000 cans, hoping each student would just donate 1-2 canned goods.

As the Homecoming week competition heated up among the classes, students became a little more focused on donating. David Hardy, a senior, asked for monetary donations from his peers to purchase just a few more items on the eve of the final event day. He was stunned to receive five times what he had expected, and was able to purchase 432 more items. One senior who had donated five dollars had this opinion, "Even if we lose the competition, we will still be able to feed all those who need it in the entire town of Ellettsville."

Ultimately the senior class won the Homecoming points for the canned food drive, but all EHS students were proven winners. The Mustang student body almost tripled the NHS goal by collecting around 2700 goods. These were donated to the Richland Township Trustee Food Pantry.

The Northside Exchange club of Bloomington recently donated a Freedom Shrine to Edgewood High School. The Freedom Shrine is a collection of important documents from United States history, displayed as a group of plaques in the hallway of the high school. All juniors and seniors were invited to a dedication ceremony held in the EHS auditorium. Members of the Northside Exchange Club and The Honorable Stephen Galvin presented a dedication plaque to EHS Principal, Mr. Ackerman. The Freedom Shrine opened the door for an educational opportunity for the students in Mr. Chance's US History class this year. Students in his classes were assigned research projects on each of the individual documents. The work of EHS students Ian Zanger, Alex Pittsford, and Hailea Howard was highlighted by Mr. Chance to conclude the dedication ceremony. (content submitted by Alex Pittsford)

Several members of the Best Friends Club headed to the Banker's Life Fieldhouse in Indianapolis on Sunday, February 22 to attend the Indianapolis Pacers basketball game. Mr. Carmichael, the club's sponsor, organizes the outing annually. Students were able to see a great win by the Pacers and were each given Pacer's hats as souvenirs. The Best Friends Club is a social club at Edgewood designed to create bonds of friendships between EHS peers and students who simply need a friend.

Over one hundred alumni, current and former staff members gathered together on Sunday January, 25, 2015 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Edgewood High School. The event kicked off with a homestyle meal from Schnitzelbank Catering. RBBCSC Superintendent, Dr. Mike Wilcox, EHS Principal, Dirk Ackerman, and EHS Teacher, Jeff Carmichael all took part in leading an after dinner program.RBB Jubilee Photo Gallery

The 50th-Anniversary yearbook is on sale for only $55. This is one you'll want to have as a keepsake to remember the 50 years of our school's history. The theme of our book is "Unlocking the Memories" with a golden cover and the school's crest on the front. They are on sale now for $10 off the original price of $65. There is only a limited supply, so don't put off ordering yours. Go to www.jostensyearbooks.com today and order a yearbook you'll cherish for a very long time!

The Hoofbeat Newspaper has been a print publication for many years. This year, they are making the transition to an online newspaper. The staff will be posting new stories and photos weekly, and posting polls, and quick read bios daily. They also have a Twitter, and can be followed at @ehshb for links, interesting stories, and school updates. Check out the online edition at www.ehshb.com.

It's the most wonderful time of the year! Edgewood Choral Department will be presenting their annual Christmas Show Saturday, December 6, 7:30 PM and Sunday, December 7, 2:00 PM in the EHS auditorium. Pre-sale tickets will be sold in the EHS Commons each night this week through Thrusday, December 4 from 5:30-7:00PM or Saturday, December 6 from 10:00-12:00PM. Tickets are $6 and $8 dependent on seating location.

On November 10, Edgewood Junior High Students joined Edgewood High School for a joint Veteran's Day program. Special recognition was given to many family members of staff and students who have served in the military. Active military members were also honored. The junior high band, and choirs from both schools provided musical tributes.

Edgewood Theatre Arts sponsored by Masqued Crafters will present the fall musical GREASE on Thursday, Friday and Saturday - November 13-15th, at 7 p.m. in the high school auditorium. General admission is $8. Students and Seniors, $5.

This summer 19 students who had never traveled to Germany before made the trip with EHS German teacher, Amy Norris.

Over two weeks they were immersed in German culture attending school, living with host families, visiting historical sites, and tasting German food.

“That first time abroad experience is so eye opening,” Norris said. “You see their minds opening up and gaining confidence.” She said one student hardly talked throughout the school year, and while in Germany he really came out of his shell.

Among the sites the students visited were Munster, Cologne, and Bremerhaven. They went to the German Emigration museum where some students traced their ancestry, took a bicycle tour of Berlin, and went to Sachsenhausen, a concentration camp.

“A lot of them had interest in Holocaust history before they went,” Norris said. “The first time you witness something like that…it left a big impression on them.”

While the students learned about German history and got to experience a new country, there were other benefits to taking the group overseas. For one, they got to try out the German they’d learned in class on people who grew up speaking the language.

“For them to actually be someplace where they hear that language that they’ve been learning all around them, they realize people really do speak this someplace,” Norris said. “It was an opportunity to practice what they learned in class.”

Not only did the students get to try carrying on a conversation in German, taking a class of students from the United States helped to strengthen the 30-year tie Edgewood High School has with the German exchange program.

Each year the Indiana State School Music Association recognizes Indiana High School bands who participate and achieve high ratings in all state competitions. Edgewood High School bands have received the distinction "All- Music Award" for their outstanding performances. In 2013-14 the Marching Mustangs were state finalists, and Edgewood's concert and jazz bands received gold ratings. In addition many of our solos and ensembles also qualified for the state finals. Congratulations to Aaron Wells and the EHS bands!

Each year, students across the state help to choose the winner of the Eliot Rosewater Indiana High School Book Award. Edgewood High School students have the chance to casts their votes as well. This year EHS readers rated The Fault in our Stars the highest, but statewide the competition among authors was breathtakingly close: Divergent 6277 and Fault in our Stars 6264. A difference of 13 votes. Both books are being made into movies, starring the same pair of celebrity actors—Ansel Elgort & Shailene Woodley.

Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat - these are all social media apps that most parents are familiar with. However as fast as technology is moving, so are the apps being created and targeted toward teenagers. With social media bullying on the rise, awareness to social media apps is one of the first steps to prevention. Check out this article, 7 dangerous Apps parents need to know about, from Cook Children's Newsroom to find out some of the latest apps to monitor.

The EHS Key Club, a service oriented and student led club, recently hosted a contest to benefit the Boys and Girls Club. Club members nominated a handful of teachers to be part of a Kiss-a-Pig contest. Monetary donations were collected to cast votes for the winning teacher. Choir teacher, Mr. Paulsen, was this year's lucky winner!

In conjunction with Autism Awareness, members of Edgewood's inaugural Unified track team have been partnering up to lead the Pledge of Allegiance at the start of each day this week. Each morning two students are working together to help the student body understand that students with autism are "just like any other student here at Edgewood!"

Unified Sports® Track and Field is a program developed by Special Olympics to encourage students with and without special needs to form friendships and participate together in sports training and competition. The team members will have the oppportunity to compete side-by-side in a state championship that will be held at Indiana University the same weekend as our Boys' and Girls' Track and Field Championships. Edgewood High School is one of only 20 schools in the state taking part in this new event.